Stage 2 · Lesson 1 of 7
Cloud Billing reports
in the Google Cloud console show cost for a over a time range, grouped by project, service, SKU, location or label, with filters for each and a forecast to the end of the period. You can include or exclude such as sustained use and , which changes the story a lot.
The cost table report reconciles with your . Learn to go from "Compute Engine grew" to the SKU and project behind it in a few clicks.
Common trapreading cost with credits excluded and believing commitments are not working, or the reverse.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- CourseFreeGoogle Cloud cost management courses (Google Skills)
Google Cloud · Beginner
Finish "Understand Your Google Cloud Costs": its labs query billing data in BigQuery
- BookPaidCloud FinOps, 2nd edition (O'Reilly)
O'Reilly Media · Intermediate · Paid book
Paid: the chapters on allocation and tagging strategy explain the reasoning behind a good policy